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Social Studies teacher Gloria Davis is an ARHS legend, on the cusp of retiring after 29 years of teaching at ARHS. In addition to teaching U.S. History, Constitutional Law, Economics, Social Inequality and Injustice,...
When I heard Dean of Students Mary Custard was retiring after decades of service to ARHS, I was so happy for her; however, I was also sad for ARHS, knowing how massive her contribution...
After 23 years of working in the Amherst Regional Public School system, being the only Chinese teacher at the high school since 2003, Yiping Yan has decided to retire after the 2025-2026 school year....
After nearly 40 years of teaching, Richard Eckart, a well-known and beloved math teacher at ARHS, is retiring at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. “I was born in 1963, and I will...
Evan Mahnken, a chemistry and physics teacher who has taught at ARHS for seven years, has a whole big life outside of the classroom, where he lives phone-free, travels the world solo, and takes...
Students globally spot the presence of AI every day, but it’s become so commonplace that we’ve stopped caring about it. Maybe a friend needs more help than usual on their homework, or maybe a...
“Alice By Heart” is a musical set during the London Blitz in World War II. It follows two main characters, Alice Spencer and Alfred Hallam, who are sheltering in a tunnel while bombs are...
This fall, on October 26, 2025, the Yiddish Book Center at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., held an Open House, running from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event was held to celebrate the...
After six years as principal of Amherst Regional High School, Talib Sadiq has decided to step down. His departure marks the end of a tenure shaped by steady leadership, adaptability, and a consistent focus...
Marcus Humber has been a detective with the Amherst Police Department for over two decades. While he is currently the liaison to the court system for the APD and the liaison to the Center...
Students at ARHS walked out of classes early on January 30 to join a demonstration on the Town Common led by Amherst College students as part of a nationwide day of protest against U.S...
Ask any high school dean or principal what problem plagues them more than any other, and they’ll likely say vaping. This seems to be true at ARHS, with the school administration consistently taking measures...
On February 21, 2026, National Public Radio ran a story analyzing a substance abuse study including nearly half a million teenagers in the Kaiser Permanente health system in Northern California, which found that “teens...
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, Trump organized a rally at the Ellipse of the Capitol complex. He called it the Save America March, and he used it to urge his supporters to...
Just three days into a new year, on January 3, 2026, Donald Trump launched Operation Absolute Resolve. He bombed Venezuela, captured its president, Nicolas Maduro, as well as his wife Cilia, from the compound...
On October 30, the University of Massachusetts Amherst held a dedication ceremony renaming the school’s engineering program to The Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering. The renaming follows Riccio’s very large donation of...
I’ve always loved diner food, and consider myself lucky to have such a great diner in our community. I’m talking about Johnny’s Roadside Diner in Hadley, at 458 Russell St. Johnny’s has a wide...
On Thursday, January 8, at 7:30 p.m. the ARHS music program hosted its third annual Cabaret show at The Drake, a live music venue in the center of Amherst. The price of admission was...
The year 2025 put me through hell and back, but music has been my escape throughout the years. Music has always helped me with emotions, feelings, and explanations I didn’t know how to give...
Sometimes the greatest albums are old ones produced well before we were even born, albums we listen to and fall in love with right away. “Live,” by the soul singer and songwriter Donny Hathaway,...
Are you looking for drama, wealth, beauty, mystery, and a comedy wrapped up into one beautiful and short series? If so, I have the perfect show just for you. Sirens, a Netflix original show,...
ARHS grad Zuleica Booth (2025) loved art in high school and knew she wanted to go to art school to pursue her love of painting and creating. We had a call to chat about...
Ava: Where did you grow up? Evelyn: Brookline, near Boston. Ava: Did you know you wanted to be a psychologist then? Evelyn: No. I mean, as a kid, that wasn’t my first choice. My...
The Oscar buzzing film “Hamnet” is a captivating story based on a 2020 historical fiction novel by Maggie O’Farrell (of the same name) about William Shakespeare’s inspiration for his iconic play, Hamlet. Shakespeare’s 11-year-old...
The Knives Out movie series is known for mind-bending, perspective-shifting murder mysteries. Benoit Blanc, the special detective played by Daniel Craig, is the only consistent figure throughout the movies, and he always solves the...
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” is one of the three movies produced by James Cameron (who also wrote the screenplay) and Jon Landau. The movie takes place in the year 2170 on a moon (Pandora,...
I like origami, but not in the way someone likes something for a short period of time, then moves on. Instead, it has consistently kept my attention for a long time. The reason I...
This is not the first time the Amherst schools have undergone voluntary lead testing, or results have raised public concern. In the fall of 2016, then brand-new superintendent Michael Morris signed up the schools...
Superintendent Xiomara Herman sent a letter to families and staff in November 2025 sharing the results of voluntary lead testing that took place at ARHS, ARMS, Pelham Elementary, and Crocker Farm in September. These...
On Tuesday, December 9, LGBTQ activists and allies showed up in full force to show their support for queer students and others affected by the return of middle school counselor Delinda Dykes to her...
